Jessica Jones Charms Critics

Netflix is famously tight-lipped about viewership numbers for its original series, but if critic reaction to Marvel's Jessica Jones, the streaming service's latest superhero series, is any indication, Netflix has another hit on its hands.

The series follows the exploits of Jessica Jones, a brooding private investigator with special abilities played by Krysten Ritter, in the same fictional Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City where Netflix's Daredevil lives. The series' evil villain is played by David Tennant, most famous for his role as the Tenth Doctor in the BBC's Doctor Who.

Reviews have praised the series' gritty and extremely adult tone, as well as the performances of Ritter and Tennant. The praise has been barely restrained, and most reviews are dripping with superlatives; Salon says that the series is "really, really good," Ars Technica calls it "super watchable," and Forbes calls it "the best show on TV."

Viewer reaction to the series is perhaps a tiny bit more muted than that of critics, but even viewer reviews have been, for the most part, positive. Rotten Tomatoes, the review aggregator site, gives the series an 88% positive audience rating, which lags only slightly behind the 91% critics' rating. Compare that to CBS' Supergirl, which gets a 97% rating from critics, but only 53% from viewers.

The first season of Marvel's Jessica Jones, consisting of 13 episodes, is currently available for your binge-watching pleasure on Netflix.